Agree, good suggestions!
Regarding this one...
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Originally Posted by Bud Cochrane
MANAGERS, COACHES AND UMPIRES. When playing historical seasons, why are we given fictional managers and coaches? All these names, plus those of umpires, are knowable and should be incorporated into the play-by-play, e.g. “Pitching coach Clyde Sukeforth is visiting the mound,” “Manager Burt Shotton is lifting Erv Palica and bringing in Dan Bankhead to relieve,” “Enos Slaughter is jawing with home-plate umpire Beans Reardon and is being tossed from the game!” If Stratomatic was able to do this 15 years ago, surely OOTP can do it now.
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It's interesting to note that when you start a historical game, OOTP imports the historically correct manager name and will reference it in Game Recaps. For example,
"We played really great today," said Dodger skipper Walter Alston. But once that manager changes in real life, OOTP is aware of that change because then OOTP will, in game recaps, replace "Walter Alston" with an awkward blank space.
So, my point is that I believe that the ability for OOTP to fix this is would not be a herculean endeavor; rather, it's probably just a tweak to what the game is already doing. And I'll also note that this has officially been requested (by me) previously, and I will be bringing this to the attention of the OOTP team again in the near future... (Adding pitching coaches and other coaches might be a different story, maybe for down the road. But baby steps
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Thanks again, Bud!